lways impeccably turned out and
ever gracious, Marian McEvoy, the
longtime Paris fashion editor for
Women’s Wear Daily and former
editor in chief of House Beautiful
and Elle Decor, would like to make a couple of
things clear. First off, she is not an artist. “I’m a
craftsperson. Artisan is a word I might be more
comfortable with. I know artists, and I’m not
one.” Title aside, she is in a position any maker
might envy: Represented by KRB, a respected NYC
boutique, she makes one-of-a-kind works, including
botanical and cork collages and floral illustrations,
that consistently sell out, enabling her to devote
herself to her craft full-time. Second, though she
spent her 20s in Paris and London writing for the
French edition of Vogue and palling around with
Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld, she is not,
she says, a style icon. “Certainly I grew up in the
world of fashion and enjoyed it, and I think I did
very well for myself in that world, but now I’m
more at home in a room with a glue gun or a pot of
glue or a felt-tip pen,” she says.I HATE RULERS. I LIKE AN
IMPERFECT LINE BECAUSE IT
TELLS PEOPLE THAT A MACHINE
DIDN’T DO IT. I WANT IT TO
LOOK HANDMADE. MARIAN McEVOY
September 2019 | 115aMarian’s eye for design
and prowess with a
glue gun (captured in
her 2005 book Glue
Gun Decor) extends to
a pair of flea market
chairs, right, she
decorated with pieces
of suzani, a Central Asian
textile, that she cut
out and glued onto the
cushions. Similarly, a
medallion from a Middle
Eastern tapestry
emblazons the periwinkle
love seat in the guest
bedroom, below.